Flycatcher and warbler from Cancun, Mexico (1 Viewer)

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alangr

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• Oct 19, 2014

• #1

I think warbler is female American Redstart. The flycatcher I have no idea.

 

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alangr

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• Oct 20, 2014

• #2

More shots

Could this be grey flycatcher? Two more pics of same bird attached.

 

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Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Oct 20, 2014

• #3

Yep, correct on female American Redstart. I'll pass on the flycatcher

 

Microtus

Maryland USA (he/him)

• Oct 20, 2014

• #4

Howell and Webb's 1995 Mexican field guide maps Gray Flycatcher west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepac (or very roughly the eastern borders of Veracruz and Oaxaca), which means that it doesn't reach Cancún. The primary projection looks too long for that species, as well. Have you considered Eastern Wood-Pewee?

 

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alangr

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• Oct 20, 2014

• #5

Yes, with orange lower mandible - but I thought the head was too rounded - no peak?

 

Microtus

Maryland USA (he/him)

• Oct 20, 2014

• #6

It is a rather non-peaked head. I'm not strong on non-calling empid/pewee types, especially from photographs. But, not too many empids have a long primary projection.

 

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alangr

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• Oct 20, 2014

• #7

Yet another shot

This is a different bird taken a few days ago, and I had already guessed Eastern Wood Pewee but head has definite peak.

 

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AdrianB73

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• Oct 20, 2014

• #8

It's an eastern wood-pewee, unless western wood-pewee occurs there too, in which case they're indistinguishable.

 

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alangr

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• Oct 20, 2014

• #9

Thanks for all the help, Eastern Wood-pewee has it then.

 

Microtus

Maryland USA (he/him)

• Oct 20, 2014

• #10

Western Wood-Pewee is not mapped for the Yucatan Peninsula in Howell and Webb. That species averages darker with less orange on the lower mandible than Easterns.